MAYBELLE, 19-year old undergraduate university student based in Toronto. I currently major in English and minor in French and Fine Arts History. My main focus is fantasy and Gothic genres.

You may visit my authonomy account here:

http://authonomy.com/Profile.aspx?userid=8e1ab8fe-cd57-4077-9477-467958ffa991. My username is "Shimmer Light".Also, I have a blog where I will be posting bits of work-in-progress and inspiration: http://maybelleleung.blogspot.com

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:Stories in Progress:

The Highwaymen: Valera Vittori has been kidnapped by a band of highway robbers for ransom. The highway robbers consist of Carmencita, an adventuress with a heart of gold; Flavio, a vivacious and talented guitarist in-the-making; and Andre, the sly yet handsome leader, with whom she shares a conflicting yet inexpressible bond. Valera soon befriends them as they search for the infamous treasure of El Bravado, a legendary hero. It’s a journey that will be fraught with daring, with danger, and with betrayal….

See http://thehighwaymenadventure.blogspot.com for more!

Light of Darkness: Emaranth, angel of light, was thrown out of heaven because he fell in love with a human and breached the divide between mortal and divine. The story of his love and revenge will continue into the cyberworld future.

:Recently Finished:

The Gun and the Piano: (part of the Glass Angel series) A former pianist with a violent revenge.

:Coming Up!:

The Glass Angel: Gothic-horror story. A decadent and sociopathic artisan creates a window with bits of cursed glass, which creates cause for regret...

Masquerade: Welcome to the Cirque du Saturne, a dark and twisted world of pagan revelry, decadence, and deceit... a world where love is passionate and vengeance is sweet. After her father's death, Lucy arrives here to perform as a trapeze artist. She falls into a deep and passionate relationship with the Ringmaster - who, later, reveals some dark secrets of his own. However, their love is not without consequence; it's consuming and controlling, destructive and desecrating. She is caught up in the Ringmaster's power struggle between himself and the circus crew- a struggle that will culminate into rape, murder, and a final ruthless revenge.

In order to graduate, Whitney needs to write a thesis and chooses to write about the Amish culture. While researching, Whitney meets someone special, Connor. She knows nothing can come from a relationship with him, but her heart tells her different.

She was a courtesan. He was a viscount of the old French nobility. They met in a garden and fell in love over vervain and velvet. They became count and countess until she died in his arms at the opera, the scent of her verbena still on his glove.

Pretty Little Thing's weight was always within five pounds of one hundred. Either five pounds more or five pounds less, never more than five, never less than five. She was tiny, possibly anorexic but she would never admit to it. A piece of writing from middle school, rewritten several times. Please read and review.

Dried blood is in crusty spiderlike finger prints across its surface. Rust grows around the crevice where steel meets plastic handle. She slides it across the soft white flesh of my abdomen feeling retribution as it opens a red tear. Read and review.

The night hung dark and hostile around the girl’s bony frame. She kept her head low a wave of black hair settling in front of her eyes. Vampires, drunken groping and some tight rhetorical devices. Please read and review.

“Then I am nothing,” he laughs, gripping her around the waist, arms bound, savoring her laughter as autumn sweeps around them like a ballroom dress, his face cradled in the delicate crook of her shoulder.

“I know that he loves me, he tells me every day,” Imagine the voice at the end of a disconnected line, being unable to fidget or pace about the room, or even bite her lip in anxiety. “He just hasn’t come back yet.”

I was glorious and my Maker loved me, and I loved in return, until they found a flaw and cast me out of heaven. I fell through eighteen levels of fire into Lower-Aerth, and now they call me the Dark Light.

Sassy back-talking girl, badass highwayman leader, and his motley crew band together to find the greatest treasure of all time, in a quest fraught with danger, intrigue, and oodles of swashbuckling nonsense.

Art, spirituality, Gothicism, and death... these stories revolve around the motif of the glass angel. First story, The Gun and the Piano, is about a pianist-gunman bent on revenge, a vengeance that destroys everything he's ever loved...

Welcome to the Cirque du Saturne, a dark and sensual world of decadence and deceit. Lucy, a trapeze artist, and the Ringmaster fall into a relationship that challenges the limits of love and lust; love as an obsession, as a resurrection.

Fairytales have happy endings. No matter how cruel the wicked witch is, or how long the princess waits for her first kiss, fairytales ALWAYS have happy endings. A chilling tale of adultery and a reworking of Love's Philosophy...

An allegory or fable about defiance, authority, and in a way, the power of writing. Omnipotent n. – possessing complete, unlimited, or universal power and authority, according to the M.S. Word dictionary.